Offended by the Washington Redskins’ racially insensitve name? Well, you should have sued the team a lot sooner, chief.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that a federal judge has sided with the NFL franchise in a lawsuit over the team’s offending moniker.
A group of Native Americans went on the warpath then went to the courtroom, hoping the courts would “cancel the Redskins’ trademark so that the team could no longer market its name.” But a district judge in D.C. ruled that the plaintiffs “waited too long to bring their case to court.”
So Dan Snyder’s millions & millions are safe for the time being. However, the judge added that her ruling “does not decide the appropriateness of Native American imagery for team names.”
The Cleveland Indians & Atlanta Braves better take notice.
9:19 pm on September 30th, 2008
I sure hope they continue with the suit.
The only ethnicity that is treated the same way as an animal is Indian.
Boy, black skin would go over well.
HOw about the Washington Serbians?
12:21 pm on October 3rd, 2008
Quit your whining, none of these images are offensive or rude.
You simply want to fight because some jackass woke up with a stick in his ass.
Call them the blackskins, hell call em the washington crackers
12:53 pm on July 28th, 2009
Why is it no one notices the other mascots? I mean, look at the Minnesota Vikings, that’s a white mascot, but you don’t see a bunch of Nordic people screaming and complaining about it being demeaning. There are plenty of other teams out there that use white people or a white person as the mascot, many that I find stupid, such as Big Red for Nebraska or The Mountaineer for West Virginia, but you don’t see me up in arms about it. It’s a mascot for a team, not an attack on a race. I seriously doubt any of those teams even think about what their mascot is, they are too busy concentrating on the many aspects of the GAME.